Writer:	Daniel Palladino
Director:	Chris Long
Star:	Milo Ventimiglia (Jess Mariano (Episodes 26-65, recurring otherwise)),  Liza Weil (Paris Geller (Episodes 22 - , recurring previously)),  Jared Padalecki (Dean Forester (Episodes 22-65, recurring otherwise)),  Scott Patterson (Luke Danes),  Melissa McCarthy (Sookie St. James),  Yanic Truesdale (Michel Gerard),  Edward Herrmann (Richard Gilmore),  Lauren Graham (Lorelai Gilmore),  Alexis Bledel (Rory Gilmore),  Kelly Bishop (Emily Gilmore),  Keiko Agena (Lane Kim),  Sean Gunn (Kirk Gleason (Episodes 44 - , recurring previously))
Recurring Role:	Sally Struthers (Babette Dell),  Liz Torres (Miss Patty),  Emily Kuroda (Mrs. Kim),  Shelly Cole (Madeline Lynn),  Teal Redmann (Louise Grant),  Arielle Kebbel (Lindsay Lister),  Tricia O'Kelley (Nicole Leahy)
Guest Star:	Jessica Pennington (Luke's Customer #2),  David Evan Rogers (Luke's Customer #1),  Hariet S. Miller (Mrs. Slutsky),  Rowan Joseph (Jim Hatlestad),  Amy Perry (Iris Medlock),  Robert Clendenin (Poe #2),  Stoney Westmoreland (Bill Borden),  Ryan Malgarini (Fred Larson Jr.),  Michael Mantell (Fred Larson),  Willie C. Carpenter (Chief Baker),  Beth Kennedy (Mrs. O'Malley)

We learn that Rory is going to Yale. (edit) Kelly Bishop (Emily) and Edward Herrmann (Richard) do not appear in this episode. (edit) Lorelai tells Luke about the dream she had about him in "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days." (edit) The Independence Inn burns down in this episode. (edit) The shirts Kirk made in this episode bear a close resemblance to the black shirts with the words 'a film by Kirk' written in lower-case white letters which were created by some Gilmore Girls' fans on the net after "Teach Me Tonight" aired. (edit)

(Lorelai gives her room to some guest and she is without bed)
Lorelai: How much room do you take up on that couch there, Fred Junior?
Junior: Pretty much all of it.
Lorelai: That's what I figured... (edit) (While sitting at Miss Patty's enduring a tediously done rendition of Poe's The Raven)
Lorelai: At least if I had brought a flask, we could have played the Nevermore drinking game.
Rory: Ob, maybe this is what drove Poe to the bottle.
Lorelai: His own work. (edit) Kirk: Good morning, ladies. May I interest you in a shirt?
Lorelai: Aw, Kirk, you're not selling your laundry again, are you?
Luke: No solicitors, Kirk.
Kirk: How about if I cut you in for a piece of the action?
Luke: How about I toss the shirts out the door first so you can have something to land on? (edit) Miss Patty: (when a recitation of "The Raven" is dragging on too long) Poor Edgar Allan Poe has suffered so much. And now we've gotta suffer along with him. (edit) Rory: You need to start taking calls from people, you need to check the mail so that you can see the other millions of universities that have no doubt accepted you and that are probably dying to be in the Paris Geller business. (edit)

The manager at Wal-Mart tells Luke Jess has been working forty plus hours each week. As a high school student this would not be possible as Wal-Mart does not allow high school students to work more than 20 hours a week. (edit) In the poetry-reading session, the microphone can be seen above Rory and Lorelei just after Lorelei gives Rory the pen. (edit) Lorelai tells Michel to call nearby hotels and inns to find places for the guests to stay after the fire. She mentions the Cheshire Cat Inn. However, based on the episode in the second season "The Road Trip To Harvard," in which Rory and Lorelai stay at a place called the "Cheshire Cat", it is located in Portsmouth New Hampshire. That was a bed-and-breakfast, not an inn, however, so presumably this is an entirely different place with a similar name. (edit) When Rory and Lane talk about Young Chui, Lanes hair changes back and forth between shots. (edit) The three shirts that are Stars Hollows daily shirts are "babette ate oatmeal!", "faux poes foes", and "rory is going to yale!". (edit)

Paris: I was flipping through Harvard class schedules when you were still delighting to the adventures of Gumby and Pokey.
Rory: I was more a Pee Wee Herman kind of Gal.

Gumby, a green guy, and his sidekick Pokey, an orange horse were on Gumby Adventures,a Saturday morning show done with clay. It was one of the earliest children's shows on TV

Pee Wee's Playhouse was another show for kids around the late 80's, featuring Paul Reubens playing his signature character (with the goofy sexual overtones bowdlerized, of course). When he was involved in a scandal over publicly whacking off in a XXX movie theater, the show quietly disappeared. Although he last appeared as the character in 1992, there is supposedly a movie being made. (edit) Lorelai: (to Rory, who is entertaining little kids with a sock-puppet show) Hey, Shari Lewis, how's the show going?

Shari Lewis (1933 - 1998) was a puppeteer who created the character Lamb Chop out of a sock puppet, which became a classic children's character in the late 50s. When TV Guide did a celebrity recipe's section, her entry was a recipe for lamb chops. (edit) Paris: I've been totally Howard-Hughesing it.

Aviator and industrialist Howard Hughes (1905 - 1976) suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and experienced bouts of withdrawing from the world. At times he was rumored to have let his hair grow to shoulder length and his nails into claws as a result of his fear of scissors. There were times when he was also rumored to be dead because no one had seen him except a couple members of his staff in a preposterously long time. Hughes was the subject of the Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle, "The Aviator" and the movie "Melvin and Howard" was peripherally related to him as well. When he died in 1976, his estate was estimated as worth 2.5 billion dollars. (edit) Paris: I'll get an apartment in Cambridge, buy a Harvard sweatshirt, talk about Mira Sorvino a lot.

Mira Sorvino graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1990. (edit) Lorelai: I'm a nomad. I am the lonely wanderer. Hank Williams would be too sad to write a song about me.

Country-music legend Hank Williams wrote many classic songs such as Your Cheatin' Heart and I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, many of them with very sad, woeful tones and subjects. (edit)